The portrayal of historically or traditionally White people by Black actors continues at Disney, Netflix, Amazon, et cetera despite plummeting revenues and viewership. They haven't learned that this practice alienates people not only because its disingenuous but also consciously anti-historical.

As one writer put it, they are trying to "erase us from out own history."


This is not a matter of CRT's inclusion (tokenism), this is the wholesale appropriation of the prestige and fame of characters that are historically or traditionally not people of color (colored people). Cleopatra is a good example of this.


Cleopatra was a Macedonian Greek. To portray her as Black is a lie and a distortion of history that perpetuates a modern myth that old Egypt was a Black culture with Black pharoahs.

This is the only Black Cleopatra, and Netflix would probably have a hit if they produced the reboot.


Woke Disney is producing a new live-action version of "Snow White," but it looks as if they decided against another trip down Blackwash Road. Little wonder why.


We can only hope these woke trends burn out before they branch off into places we really don't want to go. 


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Iosef wrote: ↑

4/14/2023, 12:38 pm

Yeah, Cleopatra Schwartz is right up there with Schloyme Schaft.

The Afro-centric notion that if Egypt is in Africa, the ancient Egyptians were black makes as much sense as saying that since India is in Asia, the ancient Indians were Chinese.

This isn't as innocent as it looks. Driven by similar logic, armies of ignorant brainwashed Russians have come to Ukraine and killed tens of thousands on the imaginary premise that it's historically a Russian land and that Ukrainians with their stupid language have no right to exist.

Revisionist history has that effect. So Hollywood may already have plenty of future blood on their hands, spilled in the coming conflicts triggered by their corrupted version of the past.

Blackwashing Sir Isaac Newton is more than skin color.

Red Square wrote: ↑

4/14/2023, 9:57 pm

The Afro-centric notion that if Egypt is in Africa, the ancient Egyptians were black makes as much sense as saying that since India is in Asia, the ancient Indians were Chinese. This isn't as innocent as it looks.

True.

To be fair, until the 1970s, Hollywood had a history of whitewashing films, but in a different way and for reasons entirely different from blackwashing.

Until the 1950s, America was segregated, so most theaters were segregated and—in fact and as brutal as it sounds today—theaters that allowed Black audiences restricted their seating to "nigger heavens," the highest balconies with vantage points that made movie screens look the size of postage stamps. And this was not a southern phenomenon: it happened in major cities such as New York.

Capitalism is as much to blame as segregation because the White majority would seldom accept a film with a Black leading actor or theme and wouldn't pay to see such films (with few exceptions). These factors combined to give birth to a parallel film industry featuring Black themes, characters and actors and Black theaters as well.

Whitewashing followed the money by following the social order of the time, but it wasn't spiteful, vengeful or revisionist—it gave both White and Black audiences what they found acceptable and would pay for.

By comparison, today's blackwashing is the overt purloining of White figures in a shameless effort to erode one race's history, tradition or culture by dishonestly claiming those figures for another race. The pretense for this is often "inclusion" (CRT), but more and more often it reveals itself to be outright historical revision based on wishful thinking, historical ignorance, malice or any combination thereof.

Noah's Ark

"In 1936 director Marc Connelly adapted his Pulitzer prize-winning play The Green Pastures from the stage to the screen with an all-black cast that included the talents of Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Oscar Polk, Edna Mae Harris, and Rex Ingram as De Lawd... The New York World Telegram called it "a beautiful film," while other publications like The Nation were quick to note its rather awkward stage-bound origins. In recent years, the film has come under fire for perpetuating the negative stereotypes surrounding African-American culture." (Turner Classic Movies)

This film is a real treat compared to the blackwashing going on today.

Unknown whether this TikTok vid was a prank but the ignorance expressed in it is intrepid:

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New meme floating around looks kinda crude so made an HQ version.

Ooopsie daisy
Let it be known Jada Smith’s production of black Cleopatra drama and Netflix are messing with Islam.

Calling for the Netflix production team to be punished for participating in a “crime” against Egypt and its culture, Egyptian lawyer Mahmoud al-Semary argued that the recently-released trailer promotes a divisive Afrocentrism.

“In order to preserve the Egyptian national and cultural identity among Egyptians all over the world there must be pride in the makings of such work,” the attorney said, adding that most of Netflix’s offerings “do not conform to Islamic and societal values and principles, especially Egyptian ones.”

Is the Collective prepared for Will Smith to slap Mohamed?

Egypt Sues Netflix For Falsely Depicting Cleopatra As a Black Woman

jackalopelipsky wrote: ↑

4/20/2023, 7:19 am

 

Thanks for adding this. Seems Netflix is getting a lot more slapback than it bargained for.


 

...Netflix’s offerings “do not conform to Islamic and societal values and principles, especially Egyptian ones.”

Only those values are good that conform to the needs of the communist revolution. And since those needs tend to fluctuate, the moral values and the definition of good fluctuate to conform that. If you are uncertain what today's moral values are, or what is currently true and politically correct, watch Netflix - because Netflix exists solely for that purpose. In that sense, Netflix is the video-streaming version of the People's Cube, to which the masses turn to find out the current truth.

The Egyptian comrades are putting the cart before the horse here. It's not Netflix that must conform to Egyptian and Islamic values. It's the Egyptian and Islamic values that are in violation of the supreme correctness that emanates from the Netflix programming. Failure to adjust and fluctuate along may result in a forcible sex change operation of their prophet and everyone else involved. The Arab Spring engineered by Obama and Bill Ayers will seem child play compared to what's in store for them.

"That's correct. I wrote all of Shakespeare's plays and my wife wrote the sonnets."


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